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"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?"

"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."
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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."

"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."

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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."

"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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